Dividend Payment of €4.50 per Share
At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Wacker Chemie AG held in Munich on May 9, 2018, all Executive Board and Supervisory Board proposals were adopted by large majorities. WACKER distributed a shareholder dividend for 2017 totaling €223.6 million (€99.4 million for 2016). The dividend per dividend-bearing share was €2.50 (2016: €2.00), plus a special bonus of €2.00 per share. The dividend yield based on WACKER’s average share price in 2017 was 4.0 percent (2016: 2.6 percent).
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2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
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Dividend |
2.50 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
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Special bonus from the sale of Siltronic shares |
2.00 |
– |
– |
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Total dividend |
4.50 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
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Dividend yield (%) |
4.0 |
2.6 |
2.2 |
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Net result for the year (allocable to WACKER’s shareholders) (million) |
866.7 |
179.2 |
246.7 |
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Net result for the year from continuing operations (allocable to WACKER’s shareholders) (million) |
240.5 |
179.2 |
246.7 |
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Dividend payout (million) |
223.6 |
99.4 |
99.4 |
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Distribution ratio (%)1 |
51.6 |
55.5 |
40.3 |
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